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US 7,460,824 B2Granted
Sheet moisturizing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsHirofumi Nakajima, Teruhiko Toyoizumi, Hideo Yamane
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Abstract
A sheet moisturizing device, including a moisturizing section which applies water on a sheet carrying a formed image and moisturizes the sheet, a switching section which switches whether a moisturizing process is to be conducted onto the sheet by the moisturizing section or not, and a control section which controls the switching section based on image information carried on the sheet.
Claims19
A sheet moisturizing device, comprising:
- a moisturizing section which conducts a moisturizing process by applying water on a sheet carrying a formed image to moisturize the sheet;
- a first conveyance path on which the moisturizing section is mounted;
- a second conveyance path which serves as a bypass of the first conveyance path;
- a switching section which switches a conveyance path between the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path to control whether the moisturizing process is conducted on the sheet;
- and
- a control section which controls the switching section based on image information carried on the sheet.
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A sheet moisturizing device comprising:
- a moisturizing section which conducts a moisturizing process by applying water on a sheet carrying a formed image to moisturize the sheet, wherein the moisturizing section forms a nipping section and includes:
- paired moisturizing rollers which nip the sheet to moisturize the sheet;
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- a water supplying section which supplies water to at least one of the paired moisturizing rollers;
- a switching section configured to selectively change a position of at least one of the paired moisturizing rollers to release the nipping section and control whether the moisturizing process is conducted on the sheet;
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- a control section which controls the switching section based on image information carried on the sheet.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming section which transfers toner image onto a sheet;
- a fixing section which heats and presses the sheet carrying an image formed by the image forming section to produce a fixed image;
- a moisturizing section which conducts a moisturizing process by applying water onto the sheet carrying the fixed image;
- a first conveyance path on which the moisturizing section is mounted;
- a second conveyance path which serves as a bypass of the first conveyance path;
- a switching section which switches a conveyance path between the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path to control whether the moisturizing process is conducted on the sheet;
- and
- a control section which controls the switching section based on image information carried on the sheet.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming section which transfers toner image onto a sheet;
- a fixing section which heats and presses the sheet carrying an image formed by the image forming section to produce a fixed image;
- a moisturizing section which conducts a moisturizing process by applying water onto the sheet carrying the fixed image to moisturize the sheet, wherein the moisturizing section forms a nipping section and includes:
- paired moisturizing rollers which nip the sheet to moisturize the sheet;
- and
- a water supplying section which supplies water to at least one of the paired moisturizing rollers;
- a switching section configured to selectively change a position of at least one of the paired moisturizing rollers to release the nipping section and control whether the moisturizing process is conducted on the sheet;
- and
- a control section which controls the switching section based on image information carried on the sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.